The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.

It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.

For the Arminian, salvation is possible for all but certain for none. In the Calvinist position, salvation is sure for God's elect.

Confession should be a daily activity for the Christian, whose entire pilgrimage is characterized by the spirit of repentance.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.

The only reason why I'm a Christian is because I'm a gift of the Father to the Son, not because of anything I've ever done.